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Mar. 20th, 2006 12:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arpadFormer Prime Minister Ayad Allawi told the BBC that recent sectarian violence is a sure sign of a nation at war with itself. "We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is," he said.
Well, I don't know about God, but someone should advice him to read US history book and find out how proper civil war looks like.
Well, I don't know about God, but someone should advice him to read US history book and find out how proper civil war looks like.
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Date: 2006-03-20 12:49 am (UTC)A lot of the ongoing African civil wars make the American Civil War look like a friendly game of checkers. Geez.
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Date: 2006-03-20 12:57 am (UTC)Fun facts
Date: 2006-03-20 02:12 am (UTC)As a matter of comparison, here are violent death rates per 100000 in other places:
Lesotho: 141
Colombia: 69
New Orleans (before flooding): 56
Washington DC: 35
Russia during 1990s: 18
Israel during Intifada: 4.3
One man's crime wave is another man's civil war...
Re: Fun facts
Date: 2006-03-20 09:35 am (UTC)